Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

New Ghosts Theatre Company: Fitz Happens: Home Is Where The Haunt Is

The Old Fitz Theatre 129 Dowling St, Woolloomooloo, NSW, Australia
A terrifyingly good night of spooky monologues, raising vital funds for the Old Fitz Theatre’s newly launched Playwright Fund. This thrilling production unites six of Australia's leading playwrights and a star-studded cast to premiere a powerful collection of original monologues. Inspired by the themes of Act 3 - Loyalty, Lies, and…

Ensemble Theatre: Fly Girl

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
It’s the late 70’s and the Australian Aviation Industry is a boy’s club. The only job women are allowed involves wearing heels, lighting smokes and serving nuts. Deborah Lawrie’s got the chops to fly the big jets, but Reg Ansett won’t let her. Genevieve Hegney and Catherine Moore use their…
Liveworks Festival 2025

Performance Space: Liveworks Festival 2025

Carriageworks Sydney, NSW, Australia
Performance Space’s biennial festival of live art, 2025 LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL has announced a jam-packed, five-day celebration of new, experimental and genre-defying art and performance from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, at Carriageworks from 22 to 26 October 2025. Featuring a massive line-up of never-before-seen works, including seven Australian premieres,…
Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
The Breath of Kings

Theatre Works: The Breath of Kings | Richard 3

Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Shakespeare's Henry 6 plays are one of the great undiscovered gems of Western Literature. An intoxicating mix of violence, politics and romance, this civil war is as machiavellian as Succession and as brutal as Game of Thrones. Henry 6 is a rare thing - a religious pacifist in a time…
Control by Keziah Warner

flatpack.: Control

Theatre Works Explosives Factory 67 Inkerman St, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
For the first time since its original Red Stitch production in 2019, Keziah Warner's epic sci-fi odyssey makes its return to Melbourne. In the not-so-distant future, a heavily pregnant ex-ballerina, a child detective, a bitter puppeteer and a feminist pop princess hurtle towards Mars in a Big Brother-style spaceship. The…
The Edit

Legit Theatre Co.: The Edit

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
“We can control what happens to you in here. But we have no control out there” Nia and Jess want the same thing. Influencer Nia, wants to find her match and win the primetime reality dating hit, Match or Snatch. Producer Jess, wants to orchestrate Nia’s every move to secure…
Editor's Choice Rebecca

Melbourne Theatre Company: Rebecca

Southbank Theatre Southbank, VIC, Australia
Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel was adapted as a suspenseful film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. This new production, adapted and directed by MTC Artistic Director Anne-Louise Sarks, takes us back to Manderley, the grand mansion where Maxim de Winter returns home with his second…
Editor's Choice The Shiralee

Sydney Theatre Company: The Shiralee

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
Kate Mulvany did a fabulous job adapting Ruth Park’s Harp in the South trilogy for Sydney Theatre Company. Now she has turned her attention to the 1955 Australian classic The Shiralee, written by D’Arcy Niland (who was married to Park). The story centres on Macauley, a rugged swagman, who roams Australia…
Malacañang Made Us

Queensland Theatre: Malacañang Made Us

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised. 1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change. On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young…
Naturism

Griffin Theatre Company: Naturism

Wharf 2 Theatre The Wharf, Dawes Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia
No internet. No intruders. No clothes. Far from the trappings of civilisation, a group of nudist baby boomers have created their very own off-grid bush eco-paradise. An unseasonably hot summer approaches, but no worries! They’ve got enough preserves, pickles, and Fleetwood Mac to get them through it… probably. Enter Evangeline—a…

Melbourne Theatre Company: Dying: A Memoir

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. Taylor’s wry insights into the rituals, language and taboos surrounding mortality can be witty, provocative or eye-opening…

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